Research Newsletter

Magazines in the U.S. have been witnessing a constant decline in circulation since 2008. In response, many magazines have intensified their presence through digital media, but they find it hard to retain readership.
Parul Jain, assistant professor in the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio …

A Pew Research Center
study found that 73 percent of children aged between 13 and 17 in the United
States have access to a smartphone and spend a substantial amount of time a day
on it.
This heavy use can expose
children to risks such as accidental or intentional exposure …

The advent of mobile devices and the proliferation of social networking sites have changed how audiences watch television. As they watch, they use social media to talk about television content. But why do audiences engage in this media multitasking?
An online survey with 618 respondents in …

Obesity has been a
pressing problem among Americans in the last two decades. Research has shown
that African Americans have the highest age-adjusted rates of obesity, followed
by Hispanics, non-Hispanic whites and Asians. Health journalists play a crucial
role in providing news and information about obesity and all aspects …

Visual journalists often
take photographs of strangers and include them in videos. This interaction
between them can be in-depth, shallow or nonexistent. People are usually
reactive to cameras. So, tension exits between the ways people want to be
depicted and how journalists visually render them.
T. J. Thomson of …

Local TV newsrooms face no shortage of challenges these days in the digital era: audience, revenue, technology and more. According to eMarketer, more than 22 million US adults canceled their cable and telco services in 2017. The figure was 15.4 million in 2016. They did …

Students follow news to
understand the issues happening around the world, helping them engage with
communities and participate in a democracy. Advances in technology offer
various ways to get access to news. For example, one no longer needs to
subscribe to a broadsheet. Social media pages of newspapers serve …

Though television remains the predominant supplier of local news in the US, online media has become a serious competitor. According to a study of the TV news industry, there are two things to consider in understanding news media trend lines clearly: One is news consumption …

Although the U.S. Supreme Court granted the constitutional right to same-sex marriage in 2015, the nation remains greatly divided on the issue. Some people believe that same-sex marriage sacrileges the sanctity of family, religion and social institutions, while others believe that gay couples be granted …

Social media can give insights into many aspects of modern life, and a recent study looked at images on Instagram in search of insights into nutrition among young adults.
Researchers Gitte Kloek, Stefanie Salmon, Sanne de Vries studies food images on Instagram to help in understanding …

Podcasts are increasing in popularity, with a 2017 Edison Research study finding that 40 percent of the U.S. sample had listened to a podcast and 24 percent engaged in monthly listening.
Lisa Glebatis Perks and Jacob Turner of the Department of Communication and Media at Merrimack …

Other than providing news, newspapers also have segmented opinion sections such as editorials, opinion columns, op-eds and letters to the editor. Members of the editorial board of a newspaper usually write editorials; as a result, no single journalist attaches his or her name to the …